Improvement in cotton-bale ties



ITNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

osCAR D. WooDRURY AND EDWIN C. WODRURY, 0E NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,998, dated September 15, 1874; application liled August 8, 1874.

To all lughom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OsCAR D. WooDBURY and EDWIN C. WooDRURY, both of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Cotton-Bale Tie; and We hereby declare that the follovs-'ng is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which the same letter represents the same thing in each iigure.

Figure 1 represents one part of our cottonbale tie; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; Fig. 3, the combination of the two parts When ap- The operation is this: A metal hoop is bent scribed.

OSCAR D. WOODBURY. EDWIN C. WOODBURY. Witnesses:

L. C. WACHNER, ELLIOTT P. WEsT. 

